Jumper, civilian: SOE Harry Rée.
From the Imperial War Museum files.
© IWM (UNI 127805)
Woolen jumper with darned bullet holes.
Harry Rée (1914-1991) joined the Special Operations Executive in 1940, becoming a captain serving with the Intelligence Corps. A skilled linguist, Rée was sent to France in 1943 under the code name of ‘Cesar’. Aware that the bombing of France by the RAF was counter-productive, Rée argued that if agents were to organize the sabotage of selected factories then the German war effort would still be undermined but with fewer civilian casualties. To emphasise the point he orchestrated the successful destruction of the Peugeot factory at Sochaux. Later, in attempt to evade capture, he was shot four times but still managed to swim across a river and crawl through a forest, eventually getting back to England via Switzerland. In 1944 Harry Rée appeared in a public information film, ‘Now it can be told’, made by the RAF Film Unit (but released in 1946), detailing the exploits of SOE agents, the cast acting their own experiences on screen. For his service Captain Rée was awarded a DSO, OBE, Croix de Guerre, and the Medaille de La Resistance.
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SOE Harry Rée.
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